UCLA has produced noted thinkers such as Jim Morrison, Troy Aikman and Kareem but James Franco  may be in a league of his own.   What will he write his Yale Ph.D. thesis on?  Will he join UCLA’s faculty in a few years?   

Now, can a Ph.D. become a movie star?  I’m still waiting to be discovered as the next Tarantino.   Celebrities can be scholars.  Brian May  , of Queen fame,  is a much better physicist than I am.